Jean Allman, PhD, director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, discusses The Divided City, a four-year project exploring segregation in St. Louis. She also delves into the nature of the humanities and the health of the field today.

A committee of campus leaders is investigating the best ways to serve an anticipated increase in Pell Grant-eligible students at Washington University next fall and in future years. Harvey R. Fields Jr., PhD, assistant director for academic programs at Cornerstone, is leading the group.

Initial results of an innovative study may significantly change how some patients are evaluated after a stroke, according to School of Medicine researchers. The study’s senior author is Maurizio Corbetta, MD.

An archaeology dig on the “roof of the world” yielded evidence that humans figured out much earlier than previously known how to survive year-round in farming and grazing settlements in high-altitude regions of the Tibetan Plateau. Anthropologist Xinyi Liu, PhD, of Arts & Sciences, was a co-author of the study published in Science.